(n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.BLACKNESS

(kimririm, "obscurations"; qadhruth, "darkness"; gnophos, "darkness" zophos "blackness"): Terms rarely used but of special significance in picturing the fearful gloom and blackness of moral darkness and calamity. Job, cursing, the day of his birth, wishes that it, a dies ater ("dead black day"), might be swallowed up in darkness (Job 3:5). Because of Israel's spiritual infidelity Yahweh clothes the heavens with the blackness of sackcloth (Isaiah 50:3), the figure being that of the inky blackness of ominous, terrifying thunder clouds. The fearful judgment against sin under the old dispensation is illustrated by the appalling blackness that enveloped smoking, burning, quaking Sinai at the giving of the law (Hebrews 12:18; compare Exodus 19:16-19; Exodus 20:18). The horror of darkness culminates in the impenetrable blackness of the under-world, the eternal abode of fallen angels and riotously immoral and ungodly men (Jude 1:13; see also Jude 1:6 and 2 Peter 2:4, 17). Human language is here too feeble to picture the m oral gloom and rayless night of the lost: "Pits (the King James Version "chains") of darkness" (compare the ninth plague of Egypt, "darkness which may be felt" (Exodus 10:21)). Wicked men are "wandering stars," comets that disappear in "blackness of darkness. reserved for ever." In art this figurative language has found majestic and awe-inspiring expression in Dore's illustrations of Dante's Purgatory and Milton's Paradise Lost.

Dwight M. Pratt

2217. zophos -- deep gloom
... blackness, darkness, mist. Akin to the base of nephos; gloom (as shrouding
like a cloud) -- blackness, darkness, mist. see GREEK nephos. ...
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1105. gnophos -- darkness, gloom
... Word Origin from dnophos (darkness) Definition darkness, gloom NASB Word Usage darkness
(1). blackness. Akin to nephos; gloom (as of a storm) -- blackness. ...
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7839. shacharuth -- blackness
... 7838, 7839. shacharuth. 7840 . blackness. Transliteration: shacharuth
Phonetic Spelling: (shakh-ar-ooth') Short Definition: life. ...
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7815. shechor -- blackness
... 7814, 7815. shechor. 7816 . blackness. Transliteration: shechor Phonetic
Spelling: (shekh-ore') Short Definition: soot. Word Origin ...
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6940. qadruth -- darkness, gloom
... 6939, 6940. qadruth. 6941 . darkness, gloom. Transliteration: qadruth Phonetic
Spelling: (kad-rooth') Short Definition: blackness. ... blackness. ...
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3650. kimrir -- darkness, gloominess
... 3649, 3650. kimrir. 3651 . darkness, gloominess. Transliteration: kimrir Phonetic
Spelling: (kim-reer') Short Definition: blackness. ... blackness. Redupl. ...
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6289. parur -- perhaps beauty
... blackness. From pa'ar; properly, illuminated, ie A glow; as noun, a flush (of anxiety) --
blackness. see HEBREW pa'ar. 6288, 6289. parur. 6290 . ...
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Hebrews xii. 18-24
... Hebrews xii. 18-24. Hebrews xii.18-24 "For ye are not come unto a fire [3422] that
might be touched and that burned, and unto blackness, and darkness, and ...
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The Wordless Book
... is something about this in the text, for the person who used this prayer said,
"Wash me," so he was black and needed to be washed; and the blackness was of ...
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Look not Upon Me Because I am Dark-Colored, Because the Sun Hath ...
... have I not kept. Why is it that the betrothed asks that they will not look
upon her in her blackness? Because the soul, entering ...
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I am Black, but Comely, O Ye Daughters of Jerusalem, as the Tents ...
... that she is black. What is this thy blackness, O thou incomparable maiden?
(we say to her;) tell us, we pray thee. I am black, she ...
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Whether all Sorrow is Contrary to all Pleasure?
... Because, just as whiteness and blackness are contrary species of color, so pleasure
and sorrow are contrary species of the soul's passions. ...
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The Life of Mr. Andrew Melvil.
... into ward, he would not be released, unless it should be to bring him to the scaffold,
that the decree of the council was altered, and Blackness was appointed ...
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The King --Continued.
... It is like some distant thunder-cloud which grows on the horizon into ominous blackness,
and seems to be filling its ashen-coloured depths with store of ...
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Sin and Grace
... but death came by sin and after death comes judgment, and, to the ungodly, the doom
that never can be desired, the eternal wrath whose blackness the wildest ...
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The Death of Christ for his People
... heart, so vile and so deceitful. I thought that then I had seen the exceeding
blackness of my sin. Alas! I had not seen enough of ...
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Of the Law and a Christian
... 2. When he gave it the first time, it was with thunderings and lightnings, with
blackness and darkness, with flame and smoke, and a tearing sound of the trumpet ...
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Blackness (13 Occurrences)
... (n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity
in wickedness. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. BLACKNESS. ...
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Black (52 Occurrences)
... regard one with black looks. 5. (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously;
so as to produce blackness. 6. (n.) That which is destitute ...
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Nether (19 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom
the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. (See RSV). ...
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Reserved (28 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for
whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. ...
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Blackest (5 Occurrences)
... Blackest (5 Occurrences). 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven
by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. ...
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Storm (62 Occurrences)
... (WEY). Hebrews 12:18 For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched,
and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, (WEB WEY NIV). ...
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Darkness (177 Occurrences)
... 13). Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) The absence of light; blackness;
obscurity; gloom. 2. (n.) A state of privacy; secrecy. 3 ...
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Forever (426 Occurrences)
... Amen. (WEB NAS). 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a
storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. (WEB). ...
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Vilifying (1 Occurrence)
... Vilifying (1 Occurrence). Proverbs 20:20 Whoso is vilifying his father and his mother,
Extinguished is his lamp in blackness of darkness. (YLT). ...
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Out-places (22 Occurrences)
... (YLT). Lamentations 4:8 Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have
not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath ...
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